The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-08
MIDSUMMER JOYS.

NEW ORR, aug ot-i1aS CIVILIZATION
made women happy? Civilization felicitates
;+s,lf that it has made divers strenuous
olyorts in this direction. 1t would be easy
10 say good deal on both sides of the
question. Modern women are probably
boppier and more unhappy than the men of
their time.
Walking through Il crowded tenement
street late in the afternoon when the whole
Donnlation had sought refuge on the door
strns and the sidewalk, it struck me that
There was an appreciate and fairly con-
stnft difference between the expression Of
face of the women and the men. The
Struggle for daily bread was Harder on the
women. They looked older in proportion
70 their probable years, and their faces had
more lines upon them. They looked. when
not animated i'll talk, joyless The men
were not jovial by any means, but one day
was over and they had not begun to lift the
burdens OF another. The woman of the
swarming tenement district, if she has a
bright spot in her life, has it when her lover
comes. Her childhood has not many
Measures in it and her nature life is apt to
have fewer. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
ond the rest of the week are serious days to
her. especially if there is small proportion
Of the lover left in the rough-spoken hus-
band.
Tine woman of the more favored part of
society seems to have at least her share of
The good things of life, especially ut this
time of year, when she is off on her annual
plav spell while her mate attends to business
in the hot city streets at home. Civiliza-
tion has lifted her old-time cares off her
hands. She neither spins nor weaves, nor
sews to excess. She keeps herself cool and
pretty She enjoys music. She reads the
latest magazine Her daughters are-say
what the world will of neglect of parents
devoted to her. especially if she is charming.
She hasn't that sense of responsibility
which Expresses her husband. She is taken
care of. She has leisure for visiting and
conversation. She is interested in the men,
women and happenings OF her day. She
can applaud or shudder with a sense that,
come what NAV, this side of a financial
panic, it is all one to her. Women consti-
tute a large proportion of the American
leisure class, and it seems to outsiders as if
a leisure class stood an excellent chance of
having an excellent time.
On the other hand, the conditions of
modern life separate man and wife to such
an extent as almost to overbalance the
woman's superior chance OF happiness.
They live in different worlds His head is
in bank or counting house or Wall street
when at home, and he has not time to
interest himself i'll the art or the literature
that make his wifes world. She goes into
society for an occupation. He has all the
occupation he wants out of it. She is a
German student or takes up the Russian
noveistS. II calls it her latest fad and
picks up his newspaper. She keeps closer
abreast of the times in some way than he
and doesn't find him sympathetic as regards
her impressions of the last man or event.
She is quick to form an opinion, du cOurdnt,
with everything abort her He is self
absorbed, not responsive. She invents all
manner of resources against ennui, but is
sometimes bored in the luxurious drawing
room where he has left her alone Some
times even her very pasSivity as regards the
on-goings of the world makes her morbidly
concerned a.; to its going right There are
women who take the worlds problems so
seriously, are 50 troubled with mental doubts
and questionings, that their leisure for
thought is curse Topunge into the active
life of their husbands would be whole
some mental tonic. Take it all i'll all each
sex has its difficulties to wrestle with.
Neither in the long run gets much advan-
tage over the other.
THE FRENCH MIIIINER.
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saosn tbo,, son,a of ON. Partisan towers With
lace and ~ r;hInns has based some claim to
,,1ora tban ordino1v favor AMONG New
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IF tba Enon,osc Josenbine's niIIinerSthat
V,l ,,aa+I,,o x,bp sow ba, handboxes
t;ni-e5 o,-ar and caTne herself within an ace
Of fooiino +ha touch of the immortal foot
when If Was discovered that ,Josephjne had
, ioi a "iI,t+ honnat in ono mouth
1So" tS S O Of her qenealogv II
1,n,i a. a. hoIda, scribe 70 Couch BIT II
,1oi,,t of -, o. ieost This descendont of
tba nm, ma ir,aatod Empress, maltreoted favorito
held n comuletpd summer bonnet up to view.
twirling it ON the tips of her quick French
fingers, the other day. 1t was gauze
bonnet, small and giving somehow the
effect of a watery GOODNESS. 1t was not
white and it was not gray or green, but it
looked as if mermaid might wear it when
the sllnbeams struck hot through the waves
down below. 1t was going to Bar Harbor,
she said, and a half dozen more were going
with it. No woman, it is the French MILL
ner's theory, ever had as many bonnets as
she wanted and no woman ever will. All
women have the bonnet mania to some ex-
tent, but the craze, when it has once
marked victim for its own, knows no
bounds A bonnet for every day IN the
year, or as many changes per diem as Berry
Wan has of trousers, would hardly satisfy
the bonnet maniac To bring over two
dozen in huge bonnet trunk from T; rlS
and to buy considerably more than that
number to exc out the French ''creations"